Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He has played a prominent role in syntactic theorizing from the extended Standard Theory, through Government-Binding Theory, to Minimalism. He is the author of Move Alpha: Conditions on Its Application and Output (with Mamoru Saito), 1992; An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1, Language (with Daniel Osherson), 1990; Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability, 1990; Essays on Anaphora, 1989; and A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty categories (with Juan Uriagereka), 1988. He is also editor, with Daniel Osherson, of An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1, Language (1990).

* Presents clear exposition of minimalism - arguably the most
important recent development in linguistics.
* Written by one of the originators of minimalism.
* Places current ideas in their historical context.

"Howard Lasnik has a knack for taking very abstruse ideas and
teasing delightful empirical consequences from them. In this
collection of essays he applies this talent to current Minimalist
theory. In the process he explicates and refines core technical
notions of the Minimalist enterprise and lays bare its larger
logic. For those intrigued by Minimalism but who aren’t quite
sure how to "do it" I can think of no better advice than the
following: read these essays and imitate shamelessly!" –
Norbert R. Hornstein, University of Maryland

"Minimalist Analysis highlights and sharpens the
empirical focus of work on Chomsky’s Minimalist program.
Lasnik’s investigations of a broad range of syntactic
phenomena elucidate the central concepts and analyses of Minimalism
and motivate some significant modifications. These clear and
insightful case studies illuminate the complex interactions between
theory and data. This is an outstanding collection and an important
resource for linguistic theory." –Robert Freidin,
Princeton University

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